Monitor Net Traffic

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 16:20:22 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Yeah, it was kinda smart assed, but accurate.  The files are just 'dd'
> created files with nothing but zeroes in them.  Empty from a content
> standpoint, not a size standpoint.

If they are just zero filled, then doesn't compression start coming
into play giving false results?

I was under the impression that a file filled with random data (thus
not really compressible) was much more accurate.

Brian




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